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On a recent Thursday, I boarded a train into Chicago along with all the late commuters and vacationers headed to the lakefront. Although I wasn't going to be within a mile of the lake, I was dipping my toes in the water, as it were, of a brand owner—visiting the offices of H2O Plus. Led and facilitated by president and CEO Rick Ruffolo, who's also a member of the GCI editorial advisory board, I had the opportunity to sit down with the team responsible for the strategic direction, product development and marketing of the brand's growing line of products.
During the course of a conversation about the process of developing products and bringing them to market, Becky Fulmer, brand director, described the process as "fluid." For me, a lightbulb went off. Although product development is a formal process, the conversations and give and take (based on and impacted by a laundry list of criteria) between different areas of focus and expertise within a company is what brings the product to life. The process is a key tool, but the fluidity between the professionals in marketing, packaging, R&D, creative, operations, etc. is the crucial aspect.
I'd venture to guess that, for any brand, it's rarely a straight line leading to shelf. Embracing the concept of fluidity doesn't necessarily make any process where one needs to get from point A to point B any easier, but it does allow one to think about that which, in another context, could be construed as barriers as that which is actually the essence of something truly creative and full of resonance. It's the conversations and give and take—the explorations of possibilities—that imbue value.
Products that resonate with consumers, I'd argue, are those that are the fruits of fluidity, the ability of a team to be fluid, and not of the process itself. In "Beauty Packaging at the End of Permanence," Sarah Hoit writes that "design, materials and manufacturing are a fluid balance, the mastery of which can create amazing new products with incredible value."
And that's key when considering the fluidity of today's consumer. Hoit notes that as consumer behavior shifts, so does their perception of products. It's not solely their interaction with products, it's behavior that influences and leads to that interaction. The questions and answers to connecting with consumers lie beyond understanding basic personal care habits and the beauty trends influencing them. At a media presentation during in-cosmetics 2013, presenting DSM Personal Care's new consumer-centric market position of "Revealing the Power of Beauty," company president Ilona Haaijer asked "What is the truth about beauty? What drives [consumer] aspirations?"
Does beauty drive the aspirations or do the aspirations drive beauty? I don't know the answer, but I know the path to answers, to the truth about beauty, won't be straight line.


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The steelworkers guarding modern-day Thermopylae
- July 21, 2012
Work & Workers
If Spain has the miners of Asturias, Greece has the steelworkers of Aspropyrgos. Their 9-month strike symbolizes the workers' struggle in neoliberal Europe.
- Author
Honor to those who in the life they lead
define and guard a Thermopylae.
Never betraying what is right,
consistent and just in all they do
but showing pity also, and compassion;
generous when they are rich, and when they are poor,
still generous in small ways,
still helping as much as they can;
always speaking the truth,
yet without hating those who lie.And even more honor is due to them
when they foresee (as many do foresee)
that in the end Efialtes will make his appearance,
that the Medes will break through after all.C.P. Cavafy
Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard
If Spain has the miners of Asturias, Greece has the steelworkers of Aspropyrgos. Their nine-month strike symbolizes the struggle for the defence of labor rights, worker's solidarity, and the government's role in today's neoliberal Europe.
It all started nine months ago.
The ownership of the factory of Halyvourgia Ellados (Steelworks of Greece), under the pretext of the financial crisis, announced to the 360 workers that they had two options:
Either to accept an horizontal 40% salary cut and five-hour-shift workdays, or the layoff of 170 of them. The workers assembled and decided to reject the blackmail. Very soon thereafter, the owners of the factory announced to 120 of the steelworkers their layoff. The workers assembled again, and decided to go on strike in solidarity with their fired co-workers, demanding their re-employment. And they have not worked in the factory ever since. Until Thursday night.
While the negotiations between the ownership and the workers where ongoing, the ownership announced to the Minister of Labor that they would close down the factory of Aspropyrgos and fire the remaining 240 workers, unless the strike would break. Obviously the nine-month struggle of the workers had started to make an impact on the owners' profit. A nine-month strike which, to understand the context, has been maintained with huge efforts by the 360 steelworkers and their families, who of course have been left without income throughout this whole period of time. Of course this heroic struggle attracted the solidarity of Greek (and international) civil society, which through numerous initiatives has been providing support to the Greek steelworkers.
Their struggle has been viewed nationally as the modern-day Thermopylae, where a few workers and their families have been defending the labor rights and the dignity of the working population of the country. If the neoliberal logic would pass through the "Gates of Fire" of the Steelworks, then nobody would be left to defend labor rights in this country.
And the steelworkers were holding well, until the ownership of the factory found its own modern-day Efialtes in the face of Antonis Samaras' government, who had no problem to play that role. Yesterday at dawn, like a proper Efialtes, it sent the riot police to break the strike, under the pretext of "protecting the right to labor" of the workers who wanted to go back to work. In reality, protecting the interests of the factory's ownership.
Solidarity demonstrations have been and are still being organized in Athens and Thessaloniki ever since, and the steelworkers have announced that despite the fact that the factory re-opened, they are determined to continue their strike.
The incident described above is not just a story of a strike that was broken. It is much more than that. On a symbolic level, it shows what's the role of government in today's neoliberal Greece and Europe, and whose interests it is protecting. And it is not coincidental that the government decided to intervene to break this strike, just like it was not coincidental that Xerxes decided to break the resistance of the 300 Spartans and the 700 Thespians at Thermopylae: they were both expecting that if they could make it through the Gates of Fire, there wouldn't be much resistance left to beat.
What the Greek government forgets, though, is that the sacrifice of the Spartans and the Thespians at the Battle of Thermopylae did not go in vain. It gave the necessary time to the remaining Greek army to reorganize itself, and finally beat the army of Xerxes in the battles that followed: that of Salamis, that of Plataea, and that of Mycale…
Source URL — https://roarmag.org/essays/greek-steel-workers-strike-police/

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Yet again we are faced with German manufacturing expertise and are once more in awe of the sheer attention to detail that Warwick consistently provides.
It's not just the general build quality, although this is high, but something that is apparent within every piece of hardware, component, nut, screw and ball end that is employed. And that degree of overall precision and detail is bound to have an effect on the instrument as a whole.
Design and construction
The $$ (Double Buck) is the latest addition to the highly popular Corvette range so the styling is well tried and tested, but here we have the benefit of neck-through body construction. Another trademark feature of Warwick is the oil/wax finish and on this particular model the wood is just so natural and organic you can almost feel the tree from which it was cut. The downsized body not only reduces weight but also enhances the comfort and the whole playing experience. The bass also has exceptional balance and a two-octave complement of frets on the wenge fretboard, so playability is extremely enjoyable.
Although the body wings on this particular model are made from bubinga, a swamp ash option is also available and that will provide a different quality to the sound, of course. However, the cherry on the cake for us is the twin-pickup configuration from which the bass gets its nickname.
Whatever the material choice for the body may be, the main source of sound shaping comes from this impressive pairing of MM-style humbuckers. Although the control circuitry is active, these are actually passive MEC units situated closely together and roughly positioned equally spaced between the bridge and the neck. Each pickup is provided with its own three-way mini switch that offers a choice of series/parallel/ single-coil sound then is adjusted further by the two-band EQ.
Being endowed with an ultra slim neck and a nut width more similar to classic Fender Jazz dimensions, this will obviously appeal to a great many players. The instrument also presents generous string spacing for such a small-bodied bass, and there´s a Just-A-Nut system that allows for highly accurate string height adjustment: a great addition.
So although this may look like yet another variation of the already vast Corvette range, its pickup arsenal and unique circuitry means there is a lot more to discover here than you'd imagine. The reason there are so many variations of the Corvette, of course, is simply that it has proven its worth in style, adaptability and popularity.
In use
There´s little point employing the Double Buck presentation unless you fully exploit those humbuckers to the best of their abilities, and that is precisely what Warwick has set out to do with this bass. We´re pleased to report that in spite of this very comprehensive circuit, the distinctive tone associated with all Warwick's bass models is still present.
This is an extremely powerful bass. Pulling up on the volume knob bypasses the onboard preamp, and this, coupled to all the other features, makes the versatility of sounds available from this hybrid passive/active machine quite exceptional.
If you think having just a two-band EQ is inadequate then think again; the tone circuit is perfectly matched for the job and as each control has a centre detent you can feel as well as hear where things are set.
As good as these tone controls undoubtedly are, by making use of the mini switches and treating each pickup in a separate way you can achieve various sound options even before you take advantage of the active circuitry provided. These switches even allow for hum cancelling should you find it necessary. For each pickup the switches work thus: up, humbucking in series; middle, single-coil (but still hum-cancelling, presumably by using one of the other coils as a dummy coil) down, humbucking in parallel wiring. So it's not hard to appreciate that mixing the switch settings with the EQ, or even with the volume on bypass, the Double Buck is obviously well provided for tonally.
In certain basses this sort of tonal complexity can mean loss of good old fashioned bottom end, but for those of you worried that these fat traditional bass tones will be absent please rest assured that with the neck pickup switch up, the bridge one down, treble rolled off and bass control fully on you're going to get as much full-on bass tone as you - or any amp - will want to handle. As for cleaning things up, there's so much here to focus your sound, (particularly in those hollow sound areas, sweet spots and upper mids) you're going to be spoilt for choice. With so much power seemingly to hand even the single-coil and passive settings can offer some extremely worthwhile sounds delivered with punch and tonal precision.
The close proximity of the two pickups does mean that the hollows are slightly less dynamic and a little harder to isolate, but well worth experimenting with. Finding your way around will take a while before it becomes second nature, but as always this necessary exploration is immensely enjoyable as you continually make new tonal discoveries along the way.
The keyword here is flexibility in both sound and general attack. One humbucker is good but doubling your buck apparently proves to be much more than twice as effective. This is a whole new tonal experience.
Any new bass from Warwick is enough to get the blood pumping, but a new configuration to the highly popular Corvette range is particularly exciting: this through-neck construction with twin humbuckers is well worth getting worked up about. Its design is neat and compact, yet in spite of this general lack of bulk it remains stunningly full-blooded in sound, very powerful and has excellent projection qualities. What it represents in real terms is a bass that has the potential to make any player shine whatever his or her preference of style.


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A few days ago it didn't look the Colorado athletic department was going to be able to raise enough of the money needed for Athletic Director Rick George to announce that it was time to move forward with his bold construction schedule for the new athletic facilities. Apparently that message was enough to get the push he needed with a surge of donations (or they just decided to begin anyways...).
This is huge news for all Buffaloes athletics and is a much needed move for the University to keep up with the rest of the Pac-12 Conference. Exciting times in Boulder.
From the Colorado SID:
In the past seven months, the athletic department has made significant progress on the fundraising goals and anticipates meeting that goal in the very near future. Completion of the majority of the project is expected prior to the fall 2015 football season.
CU will celebrate this announcement during halftime of the spring football game on April 12. The game, covered live by the Pac-12 Network, will kickoff at 12 p.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony will feature remarks from CU President Bruce Benson, CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano, Athletic Director Rick George and two student-athletes, Juda Parker (football) and Clare Wise (skiing).
The proposed facilities include:
· Construction of a 120,000-square-foot indoor multipurpose practice facility on top of Franklin Field, to include a 100-yard artificial turf football field and six-lane 300-meter track;
· Refurbishment of the Dal Ward Athletics Center, completed in 1991, to include an Olympic sports strength training room in the sub-basement level and new locker rooms and equipment room on the field level;
· Redesigning of Dal Ward's first floor for the expansion of Olympic sports/sports medicine, a leadership development center and an end zone club with club seating and loge boxes;
· Transforming the second floor of Dal Ward to triple the athletic department's academic support system from its current 5,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet;
· Building additional restrooms and concession areas on the east side of Folsom Field; and
· Adding a 21,900-square foot high-performance sports center on the northeast corner of the stadium, as well as a rooftop terrace on the northeast corner, converting the south offices at Folsom Field to retail space. The rooftop terrace will generate revenue by being available for rent for non-game-day events. The high-performance sports center will host collaborative research conducted by CU-Boulder Integrative Physiology faculty and researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
"Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors, season ticket holders, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the university, we're able to move forward with this project," said George. "It will greatly benefit our student-athletes and will allow us to collaborate with both the campus and Boulder communities."
"Our success in bringing in the kind of support necessary to do these renovations is due in no small part to our membership in the Conference of Champions, the Pac-12," George added. "We are honored to celebrate this announcement with our partners in the Pac-12 Network as we move toward a great future in the conference."
The CU Board of Regents approved the facilities upgrades in December, but required that one-third of the funds for the $143 million project be privately raised prior to construction. No tuition money or tax dollars will go toward the project. DiStefano and George will provide a fundraising update to the Board of Regents at its April 29-30 meetings.
George, hired in August, set a goal of raising $47.6 million to serve as seed money for the project, with the balance to come from bonds.
"The performance of Rick George and his fundraising team in his first seven months at CU has been record-breaking," said Chancellor DiStefano. "Our student-athletes, fans and community have awaited critical upgrades to our facilities for many years. We have been very conscious of the need to execute these upgrades in a responsible, deliberate and sustainable way. These facilities will help take us to the next level of excellence in the Pac-12 Conference."
The CU Student Government, which uses Franklin Field for club sports, is working with Athletics to exchange field use. Upon completion of the Athletics indoor practice facility on Franklin Field, CUSG will be able to conduct student club sports on the football team's existing practice fields and "bubble" north of Folsom Field and Boulder Creek. As a result, it would provide a vital increase in the size of CUSG-controlled outdoor recreation facilities. CUSG officials have voted in favor of the field exchange, and the CUSG Legislative Council is expected to take a final vote on the project at its April 17 meeting.
Construction near Folsom Field will displace the Campus Recycling Center and Facilities Management Outdoor Services. Both programs will move to temporary sites in May while permanent facilities are built elsewhere on campus.


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In early August I'm going on a self-imposed solitary writing retreat for just shy of a week. Left to my own devices at home there are always a million reasons I come up with not to work on fiction: I have to work at my day job, I have a book review due, I'm sleepy, I have physical therapy, it's my turn for Words with Friends, etc.
At this particular retreat there will be no TV, no phone (save for emergencies), no internet, no kids and no day job - just me and my laptop. No distractions, no excuses. The place is immaculate, air-conditioned and has a kitchen. I'm bringing frozen dinners, simple breakfasts and lunches, and a whole butt load of coffee. Simple provisions for a simple week.
My goal for this time away is to get a decent start on a novel and work out the first draft of an outline. The first go-over of character names would be great, too, since I always get hung up on that. It's tough coming up with names that don't sound goofy to me and pretty much every name I think up sounds goofy to me. Why, I don't know. I think it's a self-conscious thing, a fear they won't sounds genuine, fit the characters, etc.
But then, when I read a novel I'm not so much looking for missteps an author makes naming characters - unless it's desperately bad - as how those names are initially conveyed and subsequently used. An unnatural approach that makes me feel stabby concerns one character calling another by his/her full name every time he/she is addressed - more than one time in a conversation, etc. - lest the reader has the attention span of a wasp in a room full of women with fly swatters.
You have to give the reader some credit. Establish that person's presence, differentiate this person from others by usage of mannerisms and descriptives. Don't tell me the person's full name if s/he leaves the room and for god's sake don't tell me s/he walked "through a door" unless there's something key about it. If s/he goes through a window, or walks straight through a wall, okay. But when one person leaves an interior scene I pretty much figure it's by way of a door.
Now we're getting into the actions of a character, messy devices lazy writers use to take the reader's attention away from the plot. Don't tell me anything I don't need to know. Instead, tell me about the character's reactions to the world around him. I don't care about the pattern of the wallpaper, unless it's significant to the character. Maybe it has a nursery design and the character's child died - or it's a infertile woman. If there's a cowboy print it may remind a man of Roy Rogers and watching the movies with his dad when he was little. If it doesn't matter to the character's story, it doesn't matter to me.
Use of character names, show don't tell and what else...? Oh, silly me, the plot! Once upon a time all plots were linear; now the whole thing is up for grabs. Experimental writing flops all over the place like I do when I have insomnia but refuse to give in. Some fiction makes use of flashbacks or takes place solely in the past. Or the future.
The basic rule of thumb, when it comes to plot, is called Freytag's Triangle:
Inciting moment - hook(s) that draw the reader in
Intro of characters - fleshing them out as you go
Intro of setting(s)
Establish struggle/conflict - Why does the reader care about these people? What's this story about?
Rising Action to Climax
Ordeals and complications - Characters struggle to come to grips
Major action
Falling Action to Resolution (Denouement) - Catastrophe or Reward
Epiphany/Knowledge - Characters solve problems or come to realizations
Transformation of characters - growth
Last Moment of Suspense or Resolution
Wrap up loose ends/Possible dangling ends (You don't have to answer every question)
Look how simple it is! Anyone can write a novel!
Of course nothing's absolute. Depending on how observant you want to be of classical story telling you can turn anything on its head. For my first run-through, though, I'm planning to follow the diagram set up as long ago as there have been stories, from "once upon a time" to "and they were all killed in a fiery explosion."
Next time around I'll talk about following the trail blazed by another writer, why that's okay and how you go about it. Why re-invent the wheel, especially when there are only, what, three or four plots every writer uses over and over?
As I read, somewhere or other, all novels can be boiled down to one of two things: someone comes into town or someone leaves town. True, or someone trying to look real smart-like?
Danged if I know. But I'll carry this on in my next post on the topic.


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Review: SVS SB13-Plus Subwoofer
I would never do what SVS did with its new subwoofer, the SB13-Plus. The company originally sent me a review sample last fall, but despite the fact that it sounded (and measured) great, SVS asked me to hold the review while its engineers tweaked the sub's Sledge STA-1000D amplifier. It took months for the new amplifier to arrive. That's months of revenue lost for the sake of slightly better sound. I can't think of many companies that would have made the same decision, and frankly, I'd have approved the first version. Obviously, the guys at SVS have an uncommon passion for subwoofers.
What's so special about this new amplifier? At 1,000 watts, it's powerful — but so are lots of subwoofer amplifiers. The really exciting stuff is packed into a single knob and a small alphanumeric display. Push the knob and the display comes to life, giving you access to SVS's Intelligent Function Controller, or IFC.
The first adjustment to come up is volume. Push the knob repeatedly to access high-pass and low-pass filters, which serve as a subwoofer crossover if your receiver or preamp doesn't have that feature. Both are adjustable in third-octave steps from 31 to 125 Hz and can be set for –12 dB or –24 dB/octave operation. The signal at the SB13-Plus's line outputs can also be delayed 0 to 10 milliseconds in 1-millisecond increments, in order to time-align the subwoofer with the main speakers. A phase adjustment provides more fine-tuning of the subwoofer/satellite blend. Audiophiles, whose two-channel preamps rarely have built-in subwoofer crossovers, should especially appreciate all of these features.
The sub's room gain compensation feature tames the aggressive "bass bump" that can occur in smaller listening rooms. You can set it for 25, 31, or 40 Hz, and for –6 dB or –12 dB/octave low-frequency cut.
SVS saved the best feature for last: a two-band parametric equalizer (P-EQ). Each P-EQ can boost or cut bass in a band centered at a frequency you select. The idea is that you can eliminate your room's worst bass resonances (or modes) and get a more even response. The SB13-Plus lets you choose among 13 center frequencies from 31 to 125 Hz; boost or cut in a range from +3 to –12 dB; and set the Q (or width) of the adjustment band from 2.0 to 14.4 (0.7 to 0.1 octaves). I've found that even one parametric EQ delivers a colossal performance improvement; having two will likely render your room's bass modes inaudible.
The SB13-Plus has more going for it than digital bells and whistles. It's built to the same robust standards as the company's other subs. The beefy yet beautiful sealed-box cabinet contributes to the sub's backbreaking 95-pound weight. The custom-designed driver has a cone made from a pulp/fiberglass composite with a fat rubber surround that looks like it was cut from a Segway tire. Audiophiles will appreciate the provision of XLR balanced inputs and outputs alongside the usual RCA jacks.
Although the SB13-Plus is chunky, it's small when set beside most kick-ass subwoofers. That's the idea. SVS presents the SB13-Plus as an option for spaces that can't accommodate monsters like the 2010 Sound+Vision Editors' Choice Award-winning PB12-Plus, which occupies more than twice as much space as the SB13-Plus. Finished in natural oak, my review sample was surprisingly attractive for a sub. It's also available in gloss black, black oak, or cherry.


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Chilliwack's Justin Hancock didn't let pain stop him at last month's Canadian Arm Wrestling Championships.
The 36-year-old battled through a painful elbow injury, muscling his way to a third place finish and doing far better than he thought he would with a wounded wing.
"From thinking at one point that I wasn't even going to be able to compete to hearing my name called for a bronze medal, that was a great feeling," he said.
Hancock tore the bicep tendon in his right arm last year. Surgery and recovery kept him out of the gym for several months.
When he returned to competition, he used his left arm. At a fundraiser tournament in Burnaby in April, Hancock injured that arm too.
There's video of the match and you can actually hear it happen.
"I was arm wrestling a guy I know, and he hit and I kind of caught his hit and he went with a flop wrist press," Hancock recalled, using some arm wrestling jargon. "When he did that, we both heard this 'pop pop pop' sound in my inner elbow.
"When I went to provincials one month later I was still feeling pain in the elbow and forearm. I had one match where I didn't do much of anything. Any time he hit on my arm I felt this click, click, click in my forearm and I pulled out of the competition."
Hancock, who trains with the Vancouver Arm Wrestling Club, got the injury checked out.
"There wasn't any bruising and I still had movement, so my doctor said, 'If it does persist or the pain gets worse we'll send you in for an MRI," he said. "Making it worse was definitely a concern and that's why I pulled out of provincials.
"I wanted to make sure that if there was still time to heal that it would be healed by nationals."
When nationals rolled around in mid-July, the three time B.C. champion wasn't liking his chances.
"I figured I'd try anyways and see what happens," he reasoned. "If I did feel any major pain I'd have to stop, or let myself get pinned."
The event was held at West Edmonton Mall.
To compete in his desired weight class (100 kilogram), he had to lose four pounds in a hurry.
Any boxer or wrestler or mixed martial artist will tell you weight cuts aren't easy, but Hancock dropped eight pounds (224 to 218), weighing in at 99kg.
Still plagued by uncertainty, he went into his first match.
He lost, and felt the familiar pain.
"I got put in a position where I was holding, and normally I'd have the strength to get more of an inside position and pull through," he said. "But when I tried to do that, I could still feel the issue when he was hitting on my arm.
"But it wasn't that bad, so I thought I'd keep going and I started winning some matches."
While the same guy that beat him in the first match got him twice more, Hancock won four matches.
"But the way it was set up, I wasn't sure what my placing was and I thought I was maybe fourth or fifth," Hancock said. "When they were calling people up for the medals and they called my name for the bronze I was like, 'Wow.'
"I was not expecting that."
Hancock won bronze at the 2015 nationals, but this was a little more special because he had to fight through a whole lot more.
"Even within a matter of days before nationals, I was saying to my wife that I wasn't sure I could compete," he said. "I noticed at the gym doing certain exercises, I still felt a sharp pain when I went over a weight that I could normally do easily.
"On the first day in Edmonton, they started at 10 a.m. and I didn't end up competing until 3 or 4 p.m., so I was sitting there waiting and watching most of the day with that concern.
"When I lost that first match I thought, 'OK. This is how it's going to go. I'm going to lose three matches and be out.'
"So when I got through all of the matches and I received that medal, that was a great feeling."
One wonders how Hancock might have done with a healthy arm.
"It's hard to say if I would have placed first or not, because the guy who did place first is quite good," Hancock said. "But I would have liked my chances of finishing second a lot better."
For full results from nationals, check cawf.ca/cawf-results


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The dart_style package defines an automatic, opinionated formatter for Dart code. It replaces the whitespace in your program with what it deems to be the best formatting for it. Resulting code should following the Dart style guide but, moreso, should look nice to most human readers, most of the time.
It handles indentation, inline whitespace and (by far the most difficult), intelligent line wrapping. It has no problems with nested collections, function expressions, long argument lists, or otherwise tricky code.
The package exposes a simple command-line wrapper around the core formatting library. The easiest way to invoke it is to globally activate the package and let pub put its executable on your path:
$ pub global activate dart_style $ dartfmt ...
If you don't want dartformat
on your path, you can run it explicitly:
$ pub global activate dart_style --no-executables $ pub global run dart_style:format ...
The formatter takes a list of paths, which can point to directories or files. If the path is a directory, it processes every .dart
file in that directory or any of its subdirectories.
By default, it formats each file and just prints the resulting code to stdout. If you pass -w
, it will instead overwrite your existing files with the formatted results.
You may pass a --line-length
option to control the width of the page that it wraps lines to fit within, but you're strongly encouraged to keep the default line length of 80 columns.
If you want to use the formatter in something like a presubmit script or commit hook, you can use the --dry-run
option. If you pass that, the formatter prints the paths of the files whose contents would change if the formatter were run normally. If it prints no output, then everything is already correctly formatted.
The package also exposes a single dart_style library containing a programmatic API for formatting code. Simple usage looks like this:
import 'package:dart_style/dart_style.dart'; main() { var formatter = new DartFormatter(); try { print(formatter.format(""" library an_entire_compilation_unit; class SomeClass {} """)); print(formatter.formatStatement("aSingle(statement);")); } on FormatterException catch (ex) { print(ex); } }
You can rely on the formatter to not break your code or change its semantics. If it does do so, this is a critical bug and we'll fix it quickly.
The rules the formatter uses to determine the "best" way to split a line may change over time. We don't promise that code produced by the formatter today will be identical to the same code run through a later version of the formatter. We do hope that you'll like the output of the later version more.


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SAMMY HAGAR ANNOUNCES NEW rock collaborations ALBUM
In Stores IN September on Frontiers Records
ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS & ALbum Details TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY
On the eve of his fourth decade in rock & roll, Grammy Award®-winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sammy Hagar has teamed with a seminal array of his legendary rock and country artist friends and bandmates, past and present, for his first-ever rock collaborations album, "Sammy Hagar and Friends." The release will see Hagar joining forces with award-winning artists including Kid Rock, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn), Michael Anthony (ex-Van Halen, Chickenfoot), Neal Schon (Journey), Chad Smith & Joe Satriani (Chickenfoot), Bill Church & Denny Carmassi (Montrose), The Wabos and more on an epic collection of 10 new songs and unexpected covers. Produced by Hagar and Grammy winning engineer/producer, John Cuniberti, "Sammy Hagar and Friends" will be released by Frontiers Records on September 24th in North America and September 27th in Europe (29th in the UK).
From new originals like "Knockdown Dragout" with Kid Rock, "Bad On Fords and Chevrolets," with Ronnie Dunn, "All We Need Is An Island," with Nancy Wilson, "Going Down" with Neal Schon, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith, and "Father Sun," a duet with his son Aaron Hagar – to reimagined covers of classics like Bob Seger's, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," – Hagar has masterfully assembled an album that delves into rock, country, blues and pop. "Sammy Hagar and Friends" is Hagar's first solo album since 2008. Full details, including a complete artist list, cover art, tracklisting and presale information will be announced shortly.
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Sammy Hagar, also known as The Red Rocker, is a Grammy award-winning vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and musician, who in 2007 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen. From breaking into the industry with the seminal hard rock band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career and his ride as the frontman of Van Halen, he's set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written—with songs like "I Can't Drive 55," "Rock Candy," "I'll Fall in Love Again," "There's Only One Way to Rock," "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy," "Finish What Ya Started" "Right Now," and "Why Can't This Be Love." Throughout his prolific 40-year-career, Hagar's solo and group albums have globally amassed 25 Platinum certifications on sales surpassing 40 million. In 2009, he formed the supergroup Chickenfoot with bassist Michael Anthony (ex–Van Halen), guitarist Joe Satriani, and drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers). The band's self-titled debut album was certified gold and their subsequent tours were lauded by both fans and critics. In 2011, with the release of his critically acclaimed autobiography, "Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock," he became a # 1 New York Times Best Selling Author. With his Cabo Wabo Tequila, Sammy's Beach Bar Rum and succession of successful bar & restaurant brands, he's evolved into an auspicious entrepreneur, pioneering the now popular celebrity spirit trend. Raised in Fontana, CA, Hagar's hardscrabble upbringing instilled in him an unstoppable work ethic that's been the driving force behind his rise to the top – and continues to fuel his dedication as a philanthropist.
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New mothers reported both visiting their Facebook accounts more frequently than fathers, and also managing their content more often.
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Facebook use was not always associated with better adjustment. Mothers who were more frequent visitors to their Facebook accounts and who managed their accounts more frequently reported higher levels of parenting stress.
Schoppe-Sullivan cautioned that they can't tell from this data whether more Facebook use caused stress for mothers, or if mothers with higher levels of stress were more likely to use Facebook frequently.
"I think the most likely interpretation is that mothers who experience higher levels of stress are looking for social support on Facebook so they visit more often," she said.
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But she said it may be possible that some new mothers see Facebook as just another chore they have to do to communicate with friends and family.
Future studies by the researchers will look more in-depth at how new parents use Facebook and how it impacts their coping and adjustment.
Other co-authors of the study were Michael Glassman, associate professor, and Claire Kamp Dush, assistant professor, both in human development and family science at Ohio State; and Jason Sullivan, a statistical information specialist in Ohio State's Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
The New Parents Project, of which this study is a part, is partially supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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This article was first published in the Fall 2005 issue of Bible and Spade. One of the challenges facing those who hold to a historical Conquest as presented in the book of Joshua is that there is alleged to be no other documentation for this event outside the Bible. Critics are quick to point out that the Bible is a religious book, so the Conquest account could have been exaggerated, or even fabricated, to support the author's religious message. To counter this, one can appeal to the archaeological evidence for destructions at Jericho, Kh. el-Maqatir (identified as Ai by this author) and Hazor as supportive of a Conquest around 1400 BC, the approximate date of the event according to Biblical chronology (Wood 1993: 262-69). But archaeological evidence is subject to interpretation, so those who disagree with the Biblical model readily can find reasons to dismiss this evidence as being irrelevant to the arrival of Israel in Canaan. Secular scholars are generally of the opinion that any aspect of the early history of Israel prior to the kingdom period cannot be taken at face value unless the veracity of the events described can be validated by means of independent witnesses. This approach is strongly biased and nonscientific. Other ancient documents are assumed to be accurate unless there is credible evidence to suggest otherwise. These documents are just as religious as the Bible, as the writers of ancient texts regularly mention their pagan gods and what the gods did on their behalf. Where do skeptics expect the required extra-Biblical documentation to come from? British scholar Kenneth Kitchen has pointed out the general dearth of historical texts from Canaan prior to the kingdom period (1998: 55-56). Apart from a few limited references to campaigns in Canaan in Egyptian records, the only historical texts we have are the Amarna Letters from a period of 20 or so years in the mid-14th century BC (Moran 1992). According to Biblical chronology, this would be the early Judges period, after the Conquest had already taken place. From the Conquest period itself, ca. 1406-1400 BC, we have no written records whatsoever that could provide an independent witness to events occurring in Canaan. In spite of this negative appraisal, we do have several documents that provide indirect evidence as to the factuality of the Conquest. The Merenptah Stela has been known for over 100 years. One innocuous, but highly significant, section of the stela records a campaign into Canaan by Merenptah in about 1210 BC. One of the results of the campaign, according to the stela, was that, "Israel is laid waste, having no seed. Khurru has become widowed, because of Nile-land" (Kitchen 2003: 15). As was so often the case in ancient records, the author was less than truthful in extolling Merenptah's accomplishments. Merenptah definitely did not annihilate Israel as the stela implies. On the other hand, the mention of Israel in the list of city-states and nations supposedly defeated by the Pharaoh attests that Israel was an important entity in Merenptah's day. The king of the greatest nation on earth certainly would not have boasted of defeating an unknown or unimportant people. Since Israel is the only people group from central Canaan mentioned in the text, it suggests Israel was the most powerful populace in central Canaan at that time. In addition, Merenptah boasted that all of Khurru, a general term for Syria-Canaan, became a widow because of the alleged eradication of Israel. This indicates that Israel's loss would have been devastating to the entire region, again attesting to Israel's importance. In order to achieve this status, Israel must have been in Canaan for a significant length of time prior to 1210 BC. Thus, the Merenptah Stela provides indirect evidence that Israel came into the land ca. 1400 BC as the Bible indicates. Two recent articles provide additional support for the Biblical model for Israel's entry into Canaan. The first deals with another apparent reference to Israel in an Egyptian text (Görg 2001). A column base fragment, now in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, is inscribed with a portion of a name list. The surviving names are Ashkelon, Canaan and a third name that is only partially preserved. Görg interprets the third name as Israel. He dates the inscription to the reign of Ramesses II, earlier than the Merenptah Stela. Even more important is the fact that Görg maintains, based on the spellings, that the names were copied from an even earlier name list from around the time of Amenhotep II, who ruled ca. 1453-1419 or 1427-1401 BC, depending upon which Egyptian chronology one uses. This is earth-shattering with regard to the date and nature of the Israelite entry into Canaan! If Görg is right, it would place Israel in Canaan at about the time of the Biblical date for the Conquest. But, like nearly all important archaeological discoveries, there is an element of uncertainty about Görg's conclusions. Since the name of Israel is only partially preserved, and the spelling is slightly different than on the Merenptah Stela, there is room for doubt. To date, however, no one has challenged Görg's interpretations.
The second article has to do with a strong tradition that the Phoenicians who settled in North Africa were driven out of Canaan by Joshua (Frendo 2002). A Greek historian named Procopius of Caesarea wrote in the sixth century AD,
They [the Canaanites] also built a fortress in Numidia, where now is the city called Tigisis [probably in Algeria]. In that place are two columns made of white stone near by the great spring, having Phoenician letters cut in them which say in the Phoenician tongue:"We are they who fled from before the face of Joshua, the robber, the son of Nun" (Frendo 2002: 37).
Moses of Khoren, an earlier Armenian historian (AD 370-86), also referred to the two inscribed Phoenician columns (Frendo 2002: 38). Later Greek historians referred to this tradition. For example, it is stated in the Chronicon Paschale, an anonymous work from about AD 630,
The inhabitants of these [islands, i.e., the Balearic Islands north of Algeria and east of Spain] were Canaanites fleeing from the face of Joshua the son of Nun (Frendo 2002: 40).
The original Greek text of this quotation is much earlier, going back to 234 BC (Frendo 2002: 40). It is highly unlikely that the Phoenicians of North Africa would have invented such a demeaning tradition to explain how they came to be in North Africa. Although one can explain away individual portions of the evidence for a Conquest, the cumulative total of the Biblical, archaeological and extra-Biblical evidence presents a strong case for the historicity of the Biblical account of the Conquest of Canaan as recorded in the book of Joshua and alluded to elsewhere throughout the Old Testament.
Recommended Resources for Further Study
Bibliography Frendo, Anthony J. 2002 Two Long-Lost Phoenician Inscriptions and the Emergence of Ancient Israel. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 134: 37-43. Görg, Manfred 2001 Israel in Hieroglyphen. Biblischen Notizen 106: 21-27. Kitchen, Kenneth A. 1998 The Patriarchs Revisited: A Reply to Dr. Ronald S. Hendel. Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 43: 49-58. 2003 Ramesside Inscriptions Translated & Annotated, Translations IV: Merenptah & the Late Nineteenth Dynasty. Oxford, England: Black-well. Moran, William L. 1992 The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Wood, Bryant G. 2003 From Ramesses to Shiloh: Archaeological Discoveries Bearing on the Exodus-Judges Period. Pp. 256-82 in Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using the Old Testament Historical Texts, eds. David M. Howard, Jr., and Michael A. Grisanti. Grand Rapids MI: Kregel.
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What is your take on the following? Why didn̈́'t you discuss these credible arguments in the article?:"This is a very neat picture of the rapid conquest of Canaan, but it's at odds with statements elsewhere in Joshua and in the book of Judges. For example, the victories in Chapters 2 through 10 are confined to a very small area, what would actually be the tribe of Benjamin basically, so just one small area. In Joshua 13:1: Joshua 13 opens with the statement that Joshua was old, advanced in years, and there was much of the land remaining to be possessed. In Joshua 10 (which is in the first part of Joshua — Joshua 10) verses 36-39 report the conquest of several cities in the south, including Hebron and Debir. But in Judges, we read that they had not been captured: they were captured later, after Joshua's death. Joshua 12:10 reports the defeat of the king of Jerusalem. In Judges 1:8 and 21, we read that the people of Judah did this (conquered the king of Jerusalem) and that despite that victory they failed to actually drive out the inhabitants, the Jebusites, who lived there. And it is not until King David, 200 years later that, in fact, we will read about the capture of Jerusalem. Judges 1 gives a long list of the places from which the Canaanites were not expelled.Also archaeological evidence contradicts the picture in Joshua. In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, and you would have these slowly rising mounds — each one of those is called a tell (so you may have heard of Tell Dor?). These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities. And excavations will reveal the destruction layers under the floor of new cities. So following the biblical account, we would expect evidence of a thirteenth century destruction of Canaanite cities. And archaeologists for a long time were convinced that they would find these destruction layers. But they were disappointed. They have found really no evidence of extensive conquest and destruction in thirteenth and twelfth century archaeological layers. Some of the sites that are said to be destroyed by Joshua and the Israelites weren't even occupied in this period, the late Bronze Age, beginning of the Iron Age; the Iron Age begins around 1200. Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua. Of 20 identifiable sites that were said to be conquered or captured by Joshua and the next generations, only two show destruction layers for this time, Hazor and Beth-el. And yet interestingly enough, Hazor's capture described in Joshua is contradicted elsewhere in the Bible, because in Judges 4 and 5, it is still a Canaanite city. It is said there that it is still a Canaanite city and Joshua failed to take it." [Source: oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145/lecture-12 ]
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Lina Khatib
Lina Khatib is Programme Manager at the Centre on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She joined Stanford University from the University of London where she was Associate Professor. Her research is firmly interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersections of politics, media and social factors in relation to the politics of the Middle East. She is also a consultant on Middle East politics and media and has published widely on topics such as new media and Islamism, US public diplomacy towards the Middle East, and political media and conflict in the Arab world. She has an active interest in the link between track two dialogue and democratization policy. She is also Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and, from 2010-2012, Research Fellow at the USC Centre on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School.


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Friday, February 26, 2010
Behold, the purple hair
Last summer, one of my Agency Sistahs, Kiersten White, decided to tempt fate. She vowed that if her book PARANORMALCY sold, she would embarrass herself by dyeing a swatch of hair a bizarre color.
Since I'm a bit superstitious myself, I joined her in the pledge. After that, my Agency Sistah and I cheered each other on from afar, each of us hoping the other would soon have the opportunity to humiliate herself with ridiculous hair.
Kiersten had the chance to make good on her pledge when Michelle sold PARANORMALCY in an amazing deal.
Now it's my turn to do the same.
Behold, I give you evidence of the purple hair:
7 comments :
- Kiersten White said...
YAY! I'm so proud of you! And I'm still so freaking happy for you! Michelle and I talked about you today : ) I'm so, so thrilled. And the purple looks AWESOME!
- February 26, 2010 at 11:35 PM
- Linda G. said...
It's you! I love it. :) Are you wondering why you haven't done this before?
And what a conversation starter:
Stranger: "Why on earth do you have that purple streak in your hair?"
You: "Oh, that? It's just my 3-book deal streak. I'm a soon-to-be-published author. All the best soon-to-be-published authors are doing it." - February 27, 2010 at 4:27 AM
- K.A. Krantz said...
Nice! Love that you went for the top streak instead of hiding on an under-lock. Purple, such a lovely shade for spring. Do you have to keep it for as long as your books are in print? ;D
- February 27, 2010 at 7:23 AM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
Kiersten, talking about me? So that's why my ears were burning! Thanks for the kudos (and for the idea to color our hair in the first place. I kinda like it!)
Linda G, LOL! I've never done anything to my hair besides trim it, so this is a big deal for me. So have you decided yet what color you'll use when Michelle sells YOUR book? :)
KAK, good question on the "rules." Will have to check with Kiersten White for the official word. Perhaps we should consider making sure our agent writes this into the contract for future clients.
Thanks for reading, everyone!
Tawna - February 27, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Linda G. said...
It's so hard to decide! Something that looks purposeful, though, like yours and Kiersten's. I wouldn't want anyone to think I'd had an unfortunate accident. Or worse, that I am merely an incompetent hair-dyer. Maybe I'll put it to a vote when the time comes.
- February 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Cynthia Reese said...
Too cool on the purple hair! Remind me never to take a dare about hair color from you guys! Any change to my hair would upset the delicate equilibrium of The Husband! He's still getting over the fact that I whacked mine all off a decade and a half ago! :-)
- February 28, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
Linda G, my hairdresser had a lovely shade of vibrant blue that would be just perfect on you.
Cynthia, I'm not entirely certain Pythagoras would have noticed the purple, had I not pointed it out to him (and forced him to take pictures, of course).
Tawna - February 28, 2010 at 3:58 PM


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Google on Tuesday announced a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business.
The platform will store a game-playing session in the cloud and lets players jump across devices operating on Google's Chrome browser and Chrome OS, such as Pixel phones and Chromebooks.
Google didn't say how much its new service will cost, whether it will offer subscriptions or other options, or what games will be available at launch —all key elements to the success of a new video-game platform. It said only that Stadia will be available in late 2019.
Google made the announcement at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Some industry watchers were expecting a streaming console, but Google's platform centers squarely on the company's cloud infrastructure.
The future of gaming is not a box. It's a place.
This is Stadia. One place for all the ways we play → https://t.co/v2jJTUWkYz pic.twitter.com/LlIHbjigDR
— Stadia (@GoogleStadia) March 19, 2019
"The new generation of gaming is not a box," said Google Vice President Phil Harrison. "The data center is your platform."
Much like movies and music, the traditional video-game industry has been shifting from physical hardware and games to digital downloads and streaming. Video-game streaming typically requires a strong connection and more computing power than simply streaming video, since there is real-time interaction between player and game. Google says it is leveraging its data centers to power the system.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google said playing video games will be as simple as pressing a "Play Now" button, with nothing to download or install. An optional dedicated Stadia controller will be available. The WiFi-enabled controller has a button that lets players launch a microphone and use Google Assistant to ask questions about the games being played. Another button lets users share gameplay directly to Google's video streaming service, YouTube.
Harrison said he expects all gaming will eventually take place outside consoles, in cloud-powered streaming platforms similar to what Google announced. But not right away.
"It won't replace traditional games devices overnight," he said in an interview after the announcement. "And we wouldn't be here if not for the existing traditional platforms."
CFRA Research analyst Scott Kessler said Google's approach that ties YouTube sharing and video-game playing is unique.
"It is not necessarily at this point the easiest thing for people to livestream their games and now you can do it with the push of a button," he said. "What they've done with Stadia is to connect and unify both the gaming platform and the streaming platform which obviously is new."
The company said Stadia will be available in late 2019 in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and parts of Europe. Google showed demos of "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" and "Doom Eternal." More information about games and pricing is due this summer.
The U.S. video game industry raked in revenue of $43.4 billion in 2018, up 18 percent from 2017, according to research firm NPD Group.
BTIG Managing Director Brandon Ross said Stadia will be a positive for game publishers "assuming that it works and works at scale, which is a big assumption."
That's because the platform could bring in players not willing to spend the money upfront for a gaming PC or a console.
"What they're presenting is a feasible way to play videogames in the cloud, and utilizing the cloud so you can play anytime, anyplace and anywhere," he said. "There's no friction, including the friction of upfront hardware costs."
Ross added that Google's platform could set up a distribution battle between Microsoft, which owns the Xbox, Sony, which owns the PlayStation, Google and perhaps Amazon, which reportedly is working on its own video-game service, as they race to lock down distribution of the most in-demand games.
To that end, Google launched Stadia Games and Entertainment which will develop Stadia-exclusive games.
"The differentiator for any of the distributors on a console or in the cloud is going to be available content," he said.
Harrison said Google will rely on outside publishers and game developers to provide many of the games available on the platform. But having its own inside studio will also allow the company to fully test and make use of new features.
"We can be the advance party, so to speak, and we can be testing out the latest technology," he said. "Once we've proven it we can help bring that up to speed on the platform even more quickly with our third-party partners."
Harrison acknowledged Google faces stiff competition from longtime rivals Microsoft, Sony and others. Google has been working on Stadia for more than four years, he said, and has been working with game developers through Android and Play Store for longer.
The others have more than a decade of experience. But Google believes it brings something new.
"We are not a historical console or PC platform," he said. "We are built specifically for this new generation."


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An international team of scientists, led by physicists at the University of Arkansas, has tracked the dynamic movement of ripples in freestanding graphene at the atomic level.
This discovery advances the fundamental understanding of one of the strongest, lightest and most conductive materials, said Paul Thibado, University of Arkansas professor of physics. "Physicists have known that the ripples must be there and some experiments did find them," he said. "But they could only measure the ripples as static in time. The theory requires that they fluctuate, more like looking at an ocean with waves. The thermal energy needs to vibrate. Up until our experiment no one had successfully measured this dynamic property of the ripples."
The team published its findings on Monday, April 28, in Nature Communications, an online journal published by the journal Nature, in a paper titled "Unusual ultra-low frequency fluctuations in freestanding graphene."
Freestanding graphene could emerge as a replacement for silicon and other materials in microprocessors and next-generation energy devices, but much remains unknown about its mechanical and thermal properties.
Graphene, discovered in 2004, is a one-atom-thick sheet of graphite. Electrons moving through graphite have mass and encounter resistance, but electrons moving through graphene are massless and therefore encounter much less resistance. This makes graphene an excellent candidate material for future energy needs, as well as for use in quantum computers, to enable enormous calculations with little energy use.
The study was led by Peng Xu, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of physics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.
Xu and Thibado used scanning tunneling microscopy, which produces images of individual atoms on a surface, to measure ultra-low frequency fluctuations in a one-square-angstrom region of freestanding graphene. An angstrom is a unit of length equivalent to one hundred millionth of a centimeter.
These fluctuations, known as intrinsic ripples, have been exceedingly difficult to study because their vertical movement usually creates blurry images, Thibado said. The University of Arkansas researchers successfully produced clear images, enabling them to present a model from elasticity theory to explain the very-low frequency oscillations. In physics, elasticity is the tendency of solid materials to return to their original shape after being deformed.
The researchers' innovative scanning tunneling microscopy technique provides a much-needed atomic- scale probe for the time-dependent behaviors of intrinsic ripples, said Thibado, an expert in experimental condensed matter physics. The ripple dynamics are important for understanding mechanical stability and the efficient thermal conductivity transport properties of graphene.
In the last decade, theoretical physicists predicted a bending mode in two-dimensional material graphene that couples to a stretching mode of the graphene. Without that bending and coupling, freestanding graphene wouldn't exist, Thibado said.
This study, funded by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation, was conducted primarily through a research partnership between the University of Arkansas and the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
The results were obtained through a collaborative effort with University of Arkansas physics graduate students Steven D. Barber, James Kevin Schoelz and Matthew L. Ackerman; Mehdi Neek-Amal of the University of Antwerp and Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Iran, Ali Sadeghi of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Francois Peeters of the University of Antwerp.
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